Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS (ILLUSTRATED): ALL TEN VOLUMES
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Leonardo’s record of unreliability was not simply because he decided to give up on certain paintings. He wanted to perfect them, so he kept hold of many of them for years, making refinements. Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo clun
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
La question de la beauté est secondaire en peinture, les grands peintres du passé étaient considérés comme tels lorsqu'ils avaient développé du monde une vision à la fois cohérente et innovante ; ce qui signifie qu'ils peignaient toujours de la même manière, qu'ils utilisaient toujours la même méthode, les mêmes modes opératoires pour transformer l
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • La carte et le territoire (French Edition)
the significance doesn’t matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what’s being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it’s really very personal and specific. It’s there in the light-rinse
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